Jimi Beavis draws influence from pop culture, twisted true-life headlines and strange, but true personal encounters to populate his newest album, 'Post-Apocalyptic Love Songs', with characters recounting tales of death, mistakes and helplessness.
With this theme running rampant, and ahead of a string of live shows, Jimi shares his love for the post-apocalyptic with his favourite TV series about the end of days.
Jimi Beavis1. The Walking Dead
The king. Gut wrenching and agonising, but occasionally making the viewer deliriously happy when something goes vaguely right for them. The brutality of the zombies and the power of the rotting and bloody flesh make for a literally visceral viewing, but it is nothing compared to the things the living people do to each other.{youtube}79io403T1EM{/youtube}
2. Battlestar Galactica
Set way into the future with a humans vs cyborgs civil war and a Planet of the Apes-like ending, the characters are intoxicatingly charismatic, including the robots. Able to take potshots at humanity and pleasing pessimists and sci-nerds alike.{youtube}q2x14ZhEc9k{/youtube}
3. The 100
A post-nuclear apocalyptic series that I initially thought would be an indulgent teen-fest, but it developed and took real risks with its character and narrative development. Like 'Battlestar Galactica', 'The 100' takes aim at zealots, powermongers and indigenous displacement.{youtube}aDrsItJ_HU4{/youtube}
4. Cleverman
Only one episode into this Australian-made ABC series and it is already a winner, featuring storylines and cast and crew that focus around First Nations stories and using a dystopian future to examine issues surrounding the way Australia treats its indigenous peoples.{youtube}D9DlMDEIHx0{/youtube}
5. Firefly
The most fun one on the list and just one season of a witty, nerdy romp in the western/ sci-fi realm of a post-civil war universe presented in a way that can't be anything other than a Joss Whedon-captained genre breaker. Shiny. This one is a more traditional style Scooby Gang like Whedon's 'Buffy' and 'Angel' series, only with more environmental, black market and totalitarianism concerns.{youtube}G-l3Py8mO78{/youtube}
Honourable mentions: 'Falling Skies' and the first season of 'Revolution'.
Jimi Beavis Tour Dates
Fri 24 Jun - The Bearded Lady (Brisbane)Fri 1 Jul - Currumbin Creek Tavern (Gold Coast)
Sat 20 Aug - The Motor Room (Brisbane)
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